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Teja Kishore

Teja Kishore

Hyderabad,TG

Summary

Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5+ years of experience designing, automating, and supporting highly available, cloud-native production environments across AWS and GCP. Strong expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD, Python, Linux, and Shell Scripting, with hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Infrastructure, Production Support, and Infrastructure Automation.

Experienced in Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Monitoring, Observability, SLIs/SLOs, Performance Optimization, and Platform Reliability. Proven ability to build scalable infrastructure, streamline deployments, automate operational workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver secure and resilient cloud platforms.

Actively expanding expertise in AI Infrastructure and LLMOps, with hands-on experience in Prompt Engineering, AI Agents, Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), LangGraph, CrewAI, Microsoft AutoGen, OpenAI APIs, and AI-powered Automation Workflows, combining modern DevOps practices with AI-driven platform engineering.

Overview

5
5

Years of professional experience

2
2
Certifications
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

SR. TECHNICAL LEAD

HCL Technologies Ltd
8 2023 - Current
  • Utilized Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision and manage AWS resources, achieving consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployments
  • Managed and optimized AWS infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, and Route53, ensuring high availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enhancing build and deployment processes by automating code integration, testing, and delivery
  • Developed and bundled Ruby scripts to automate various tasks and processes, improving efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
  • Monitored application performance and infrastructure health using Datadog and Splunk, ensuring stability and quick detection of issues across environments.
  • Maintained high availability of critical applications by analyzing logs, metrics, and alerts, and promptly escalating or coordinating resolutions for incidents.

Software Engineer - Techops

Bharti Airtel Ltd
04.2022 - 08.2023
  • Responsible for managing the K8s Architecture, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps and Secrets, Monitoring and Alerts
  • Setting up highly available Kubernetes Clusters, performing the deployments using Helm and orchestrating CI/CD
  • Setting up and maintaining multiple databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL, KairosDB and Redis
  • Setting up monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Logstash, Kibana, Postfix, Sensu and PagerDuty
  • Setting up GCP IAM, roles, Service Accounts, VPC, Constraints, Cloud Armor, Firewall rules, Container Registry and Pub Sub
  • Developed Docker image for Jenkins and deployed on Kubernetes, configured custom jobs to automate few deployments.

Associate Data Management

Amazon Development Centre (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, India
11.2018 - 12.2019

Supported enterprise Linux/Unix environments, ensuring operational stability, application availability, and day-to-day production support for business-critical services.
Monitored application and infrastructure health, investigated production issues, and collaborated with engineering teams to resolve incidents and maintain service reliability.
Performed SQL-based data analysis and troubleshooting to support operational processes and resolve application-related issues.
Managed incident, service request, and change management activities, following established ITIL and operational support procedures.
Investigated application and infrastructure issues using logs, system diagnostics, and database queries, contributing to faster issue resolution and improved operational efficiency.
Worked closely with cross-functional teams to maintain production stability, support business operations, and deliver high-quality customer service.

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad
11.2013 - 11.2017

Master of Science - Computer Programming

University of Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
03.2020 - 02.2022

Skills

AWS & GCP, CHEF, ANSIBLE

Kubernete, Docker

Terraform

cloud watch(AWS), SPLUNK

ELK

Zabbix, DataDog

SQL Server

MySQL

shell, Python, groovy, yaml

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, 07/2023

Timeline

Software Engineer - Techops

Bharti Airtel Ltd
04.2022 - 08.2023

Master of Science - Computer Programming

University of Bedfordshire
03.2020 - 02.2022

Associate Data Management

Amazon Development Centre (India) Pvt. Ltd.
11.2018 - 12.2019

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
11.2013 - 11.2017

SR. TECHNICAL LEAD

HCL Technologies Ltd
8 2023 - Current
Teja Kishore